Violence against women in South Asian communities issues for policy and practice

Violence against women in South Asian communities : issues for policy and practice / edited by Ravi K. Thiara and Aisha K. Gill ; foreword by Liz Kelly.

Other author/creator	Thiara, Ravi K.
Other author/creator	Gill, Aisha K.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	London ; Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
Description	254 p. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Women--Violence against --South Asia. Women--Violence against --South Asia --Prevention. Women--Government policy --South Asia.

Contents	Understanding violence against South Asian women : what it means for practice / Ravi K. Thiara and Aisha Gill -- Charting South Asian women's struggles against gender-based violence / Amrit Wilson -- Masculinities and violence against women in South Asian communities : transnational perspectives / Marzia Balzani -- Shrinking secular spaces : Asian women at the intersect of race, religion, and gender / Pragna Patel and Hannana Siddiqui -- Moving toward a "multiculturalism without culture" : constructing a victim-friendly human rights approach to forced marriage in the UK / Aisha Gill and Trishima Mitra-Kahn -- Continuing control : child contact and post-separation violence / Ravi K. Thiara -- Shariah councils and the resolution of matrimonial disputes : gender and justice in the "shadow" of the law / Samia Bano -- Protection for all? : the failures of the domestic violence rule for (Im)migrant women / Kaveri Sharma and Aisha Gill.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2009014502
ISBN	9781843106708 (pb : alk. paper)

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